SAN FRANCISCO, CA--(Marketwire - Mar 20, 2013) - Cloudwords, the first cloud-based translation management application, today announced that Life Technologies Corporation, a global biotechnology company and one of Fast Company's top 10 Most Innovative Companies of 2012, has selected Cloudwords to streamline their translation management process for digital marketing.

As a world-renowned life sciences company with customers in more than 180 countries, Life Technologies currently publishes web content in a variety of languages. To reach their target markets in their native languages, Life Technologies chose Cloudwords to standardize and optimize the process of translating and localizing e-marketing materials. Cloudwords' open API will seamlessly integrate into the company's web content management system, making it easier to manage the translation process. Cloudwords will also be leveraged for other non-marketing functions within Life Technologies to help streamline globalization initiatives, ultimately reducing costs, improving efficiencies and its go-to-market execution.

The Cloudwords Translation Management Automation (TMA) solution enables sophisticated global enterprises to automate and accelerate their globalization process. From Marketing to Technical Publications, Communications to Learning Management, Cloudwords gives customers the ability to gain efficiencies and experience cost-effectiveness while maintaining enterprise-level quality. The breadth of the Cloudwords solution for enterprises includes a standardized, highly-configurable translation project management workflow. The solution also offers enterprise-level business analytics for insight into project spend by language, vendor, department or purchase order, all while providing control of and access to the customer's global translation memory database and multilingual assets.

"Cloudwords understands what customers require for a successful translation management process. The Cloudwords open API allows customers like Life Technologies to sync and scale all the multilingual content that needs to be translated across the marketing organization. This streamlines the translation management process and saves project managers valuable time -- and ultimately money," said Michael Meinhardt, CEO and co-founder of Cloudwords. "We're thrilled to have Life Technologies as a customer and look forward to helping them gain greater efficiency with Cloudwords' features and functionalities."

About CloudwordsCloudwords revolutionizes the way global companies think about their multilingual content strategy and execution. Through an intuitive customer-centric interface and a secure cloud infrastructure, Cloudwords delivers an application for business users to accelerate their translation process, manage vendors, and leverage data. Created by veterans of the translation industry and high-tech leaders from Salesforce.com, the company is backed by Storm Ventures and Cloud visionaries such as Marc Benioff. For more information on Cloudwords, please visit Cloudwords.com or join the global conversation on Twitter @cloudwordsinc.